swilliamsio

Joined 7 years ago

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Member since
Aug 30
British developer currently based in London.

https://www.swilliams.io/

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Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, my bad. Fixed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Made the switch to Mint recently. Steam says that of 750 games on my account, 748 can run on Linux, and I've had no problems with the dozen or so I've played lately.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Reference books are the best candidates for being digitised. Why would you want to physically search a real physical library for hours to find a dusty forgotten book about a forgotten piece of equipment when you could just Ctrl+F and instantly find what you seek?

Any other kind of book I do much rather prefer the paper version though.

Comment · 3 years ago
https://www.swilliams.io/

I should write more.

Comment · 3 years ago
Bicycles are something like 99% efficient though so anything will look ludicrously inefficient compared to them.
Comment · 3 years ago
On the free ChatGPT, I got it to play hangman with the prompt:

> Let's play hangman. I'm thinking of a word: _______

It made a variety of guesses generally in the form of

> Based on the pattern you provided, I will guess the letter "I". Is there an "I" in the word?

My response was either "No [letter]" or an updated state of the word: "_RE_IE_".

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
itch.io is massive for games if you want a new Newgrounds. The tech stack has moved on from Flash to use Unity or GameMaker or Godot or Construct. It's feasible for someone not knowing how to code to use most game engines to create something - not uncommon in Game Jams to see teams like that.
Comment · 4 years ago
Bless your heart.
Comment · 4 years ago
Physically placing police officers outside literally every store in a city seems very impractical and expensive.
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Comment · 4 years ago
It was called Punch Buggy when it was for beetles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_buggy

I definitely also played the yellow car variant. I assume it's the preferred variant nowadays given how rare bugs are.

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